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It actually enhances meritocracy by ensuring that merit is measured in an unbiased, accurate way.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/...

I'm sorry; you were babbling something about inclusivity being a good thing?

That's appropriate, since Americans invented slavery so that they could use it on black people.

Hmm. Lets just explore for a moment who is demanding racial segregation in the US.

http://www.spiked-online.com/n...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://www.thecollegefix.com/...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/5...
https://www.washingtonexaminer...

Are those "rich reichtard nazis"? I'm not familiar with the term, so I'll have to assume so for the moment.

"In the US, far left is currently mainstream"

bwahaha...

Left: - universal healthcare - environmental protections - marijuana legal - hate speech outlawed - no coal plants

FAR left, is above plus - universal income - 50%-90% corporate tax rate - all drugs legal - proportional representation - nationalized critical industries (energy, water, internet) and some too big to fail businesses or businesses in the national interest - no more nukes, nuke plants or any polluting power plant. renewables only. - cap higher end wages

So I very much doubt that the "mainstream" in the USA is "far left". I think you guys can barely get to the centrist position.

I know its said time and time again, but the USA version of "left" is considered center or center right by other 1st world democracies.

You left out their most extreme positions and you know it. For example:

Left:

- general disdain for white people and favor affirmative action type programs. I think this is unique to the US. - OK to openly fly job ads that specify no white males unless they are gay - general disdain for Christians as a group - general disdain for anyone from "fly over" states, the south, or just not from a city - amnesty for all illegal immigrants is acceptable. Multiple times is fine too. - Abolish ICE so that enforcement of immigration laws is handicapped - force people to use an ever expanding list of new pronouns depending on what they identify as that day - deplatforming / censorship is OK as long as it's hate speech. Note that hate speech is very broadly defined and full of exclusions.

Far Left:

- wants reparations for slavery, always calculated to be in the trillions of USD - segregation in the form of safe spaces where only "people of color" are allowed - abolish borders altogether, anyone can come in any time and stay however long they like

Think I made this garbage up? Here are some citations:

https://www.inc.com/suzanne-lu... https://www.thecollegefix.com/... https://www.theatlantic.com/bu... https://www.washingtonpost.com... https://www.washingtontimes.co...

No, that wasn't your claim I took issue with. We both know that, see your post was here:

Oh, I'm sorry, with your flurry of insults, non-sequiturs, and ad hominems, I really can't keep track of what happens to raise your heckles right now. So here you go:

Claim: Unfortunately, a lot of the social sciences these days just teaches a view of history in which the Enlightenment, the Roman Empire, and technology are just tools of the male patriarchy to suppress women and Africans

An obvious example that most educated Americans would recognize is Zinn's history textbook, pretty much the de-facto standard, but given your background, it's not surprising that you are unfamiliar with it.

Link: Zinn's influential history textbook has problems, says Stanford education expert

There are plenty of other examples. For example:

Link: Yale ‘decolonizes’ English dept. after complaints studying white authors ‘actively harms’ students

Of course, since you don't actually ever ask questions and instead just launch into personal attacks when statements don't match your personal beliefs, it's hard to address your various confusions.

To succeed in liberal arts you have to be tripping. From The College Fix

“In felting, wool fibres co-mingle and enmesh and evoke what Barad (2012) refers to as a queer self-touching. When we touch ourselves, she writes, we encounter an uncanny sense of the stranger or otherness within the self. Using quantum theory to shape a theory of self-touching, Barad explains how a particle touches itself, and then that touching subsequently touches itself, releasing an infinite chain of touching touches.”

With that, Springgay adds, “ ‘How to write as felt,’ as a more-than-human proposition is an invitation to leap inside the movement of the fold, to become involved in a practice of intense agitation and difference. Felting is a stretching out, a space of encounter where thinking-making-doing extends beyond fragile boundaries, beyond frayed and indeterminate edges, expanding in the fluidity of the smooth. It is to write, or rather event research-creation, in a continuous present, as the power to begin again, infinitely touching.”

The problem I see . . . is folks flagging stuff as 'controversial' because they disagree with it. Lots of the left wing channels got flagged. But even some science channels got flagged by the anti-climate change folks and the 'intelligent design' crowd.

On one hand I would say it generally isn't right to do that. On the other, my heart bleeds for them. I mean, it's not like the left wing goes out of its way to abuse, ... well ...

PragerU sues YouTube, Google for blacklisting its conservative educational videos

College melts down over plan for white people-free day on campus

Justice Department settles IRS lawsuits from 400 conservative groups claiming discrimination

Court Documents Show The IRS Focused Scrutiny On Conservative Groups

Now, thanks to filings in a federal lawsuit in Ohio, there is such a list, with 426 names on it. And yes, it's top-heavy with conservative groups:

— 62 had Tea Party or Tea Party Patriots in the name

— a additional 14 had Patriots in the name

— 30 groups had 9/12 or Liberty in the name (9/12 refers to groups inspired by conservative television personality Glenn Beck)

In all, 282 conservative groups were on the IRS list, about two-thirds of the total number of groups that got additional scrutiny.

The list also has 67 progressive organizations (16 percent of the total) and 21 nonpartisan civic groups, including three League of Women Voters chapters.

The IRS took a hard look at Friends of Abe, a group for Hollywood conservatives, and at five state chapters of Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition. But also at LULAC (the League of Latin American Citizens), seven state groups with Progress in their names and two Occupy groups.

The Deerfield Beach, Fla., chapter of the National Council of Jewish Women caught the agency's eye. So did the National Federation of Independent Business and a group recorded simply as The Institute. Thirty-two groups couldn't be identified

I could go on.

That's the best example you can give? Kaepernick? Well, when he gets fired from a job because someone complained about him to the Human Resources — then you'll have a counter-argument.

You sole citation seriously equates government-sponsored "safe spaces" — from which people are excluded based on their race — with web-sites (like Breitbart), to which everyone is welcome? Pathetic drivel intended for the pathetic Illiberal stinkies... Like yourself.

action and google's and godaddy's, etc. just remember your position on this when GoHillary.com or BlackLivesMatter.org is taken down because the sites allow "hate speech" to be posted.

Goes far beyond this. The "antifascist" parade has wanted to go after Thomas Jefferson for a while now. This is the shit you're supporting when you think that removing those statues is a good idea, when blocking speech because it hurts your feelings. The slippery slope is already in action, and I can't wait to see the people trying to justify this. Yep, we're entering that new shiny era of antifascism already, where antifascists are the actual fascists and it escapes them.

Yep, people are always watching Harvard. They really need to watch what their students say, it could really reflect badly on their student population at large if some of them happened to be insufferable pricks. It'd be almost like saying they condoned that kind of behavior...

Of course, they could just give a seminar about it and call it a day...

Smith college, a private institution, openly does not accept male students for admission (yet if you enter as a woman and change, that's perfectly fine). I have yet to see a straight male work at Victoria's Secret. Similarly, I've worked at a local gym for quite some time and when I expressed interest in working as a babysitter (I'm good with kids), in addition to my role at front desk, I was never given that role. Thus far only females have had it.

Harvard is proudly hosting a black-only graduation event while some UMichigan students are demanding a non-white safe-space.

It's only discriminatory if it applies to non-white cisgender males.

The hoops some people jump through to justify this.

Gone are the days of:

sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me

The Illiberal Left's War on Speech continues and we've almost lost it... Major positions have been surrendered without or with little fight:

• "Safe spaces" on campuses have been weaponized and are used to suppress opinions, that make others "uncomfortable";
• The nonsense of "gender-neutral pronouns" and "transgenderism" in general came out of nowhere — a pregnant woman coming to a hospital to give birth claims to be a man, and is offended, when referred to as "mommy" by the nurses.
• Though one can not (yet!) be arrested for making others "uncomfortable" with one's opinion, one may already be fired for same.
• "Hate speech" is already illegal in many Western countries — with movement afoot to bring the same oppression into the US.
• Though the Bill of Rights is still, supposedly, the law of the land, its treatment has changed:

  “This isn’t really the ’60s anymore [...] people can’t really protest like that anymore.”

• The "right to be forgotten", having never existed before, is suddenly "a thing". Can't wait to discuss the court-ordered memory-erasures on SlashDot...

I suggest you try looking less to the future, and more to the past

Handing out copies of the Constitution on campus was disallowed recently by the university officials:

“This isn’t really the ’60s anymore ... people can’t really protest like that anymore.”

See? Ostensibly, the Bill of Rights in general and the First Amendment in particular are still the Law of the Land. But in reality they no longer work as they used to. Our republic is barely 200 years old. Things have already changed a lot since its inception, and continue changing. Not all of the change is good...

What exactly are leftists regressing too? Or is this another case of someone from the right wing trying to paint the left with their own brush ala Karl Rove?

First off, I'm a liberal. Voted for Hillary, although my heart belonged to Bernie. I'm not afraid of Trump, though, so I'm apparently not a very good liberal.

Second. Regressive Left is a play on the term "Progressives." Because the authoritarian post-modernist critical theory (read: marxist) nutjobs who are behind the Progressive movement are anything BUT progressive.

They want to set up segregation again, this time under the theory that they'll choose who gets the good water fountains. http://www.thecollegefix.com/p...

They want to discard the magna carta and the foundations of our legal system -- because some pink haired "Gender Diversity Officer" should have more of a say than the police in rape accusations.
http://www.indystar.com/story/...

They want to redefine terms like "racism" so that certain protected classes are allowed to be racist, because they don't know any better. Because the people suggesting this are racists. https://www.rawstory.com/2016/...

We just saw the US population as well as the UK reject this insanity. The rest of the EU appears to be following right behind. And rather than do any form of introspection and start pushing out some of these toxic, problematic marxist elements, instead we get unhinged conspiracy theories about L33t Russian Haxx0rs.

God save us, because the left has learned absolutely nothing.

(Fun fact: Note that the CIA also confirmed all those emails were true, but we're not supposed to care that the DNC is more corrupt than the GOP now. Nor are we supposed to care that Trump actually bamboozled the GOP into giving him a standing ovation when he talked about protecting Gay Rights. Remember, Literally Hitler.)

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 makes it illegal "to make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin.

Such laws are bogus, in violation of the First Amendment and, obviously, counter-productive.

After decades of fighting the thought-crimes of discrimination, we still see plenty of it. It is, actually, even getting worse as prominent institutions host openly segregated events. The government must not be allowed to discriminate, but discrimination by private parties — both individuals and companies — should become legal again.

They don't have to accuse, SJW's actually do it.

Like this and like this and like this and like this and like this and like this and like this and like this and like this and this and some more of this and more stuff like this.

And I've just started, that's from the last week or so. So let's fix that: Any time someone mentions SJW, they're pointing out that the left is full of regressive children that want to ban anything that doesn't fit with their very narrow view of the world, and will do anything to ban, block, censor or attack(physically/emotionally/virtually or IRL) you in any form in order to make it happen. And the left has a serious regressive problem today, just like the right did back in the 70's and 80's when the extreme-right were firebombing abortion clinics or assaulting gays. Today it's environmentalists burning down property or letting animals from testing labs loose, or groups other groups(like BLM, 3rd wave feminists or the modern anarchist movements) doxing or swatting people in order to silence them and/or operating smear campaigns and labeling people as misogynists/sexists/etc in order to scare them away or silence them, or to make them look so bad no one will take their side.

How is this not price fixing?

In the same way that kissing your sleeping boyfriend in the morning might meet some legal definition of "non-consensual sex" but probably shouldn't be counted as such in a court of law. Price fixing laws, whether they technically apply or not, shouldn't apply.

For the second time in as many semesters, the Student Life and Involvement Center (SLIC) at the Jesuit institution rejected Justin Carrizales’ application to start a chapter of Turning Point USA, a nonpartisan student organization dedicated to free markets, limited government and personal responsibility.

You mean the "campus rape crisis" that doesn't actually exist on the campuses where women are actually less likely to be raped than women in the general population? The entire thing is based on poor statistics, something for which the users of those statistics are at least as responsible for as the originators.

Any rape is too much rape, but by creating fairy stories about the prevalence, causes and definition of rape you won't do anything useful to reduce that figure. In fact you'll probably make it worse.

Posting ac because, unfortunately, it's just too dangerous to say things like this in connection with one's IRL identity these days.

Should we begin divesting from Canada's corporations?

If it were up to the University of California, we'd be boycotting ourselves!

Like the original contract for this website which went to a college buddy of the POTUS' wife, without open bidding.

The executive whose company won the no-bid contract is Toni-Townes Whitley and the only association she and Michelle Obama have had is that they were classmates at Princeton.

The right-wing media attempted to twist this fact of attending the same school at the same time as proof of cronyism. Fortunately for those of us who would be informed rather than manipulated, the biggest evidence of this failed smear campaign is the blasted Google landscape around the search terms "michelle obama yale classmate".

The only people repeating this as proof of corruption are biased right-wing media organs and poorly informed /. readers.

• joemiller.us/.../michelle-obamas-princeton-classmate-executive-company..
• foxnewsinsider.com/.../hannity-krauthammer-michelle-obamas-connecti..
• www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Michelle-Os-Princeton-classmate-exec-company-b
• freedomoutpost.com/.../michelle-obamas-college-classmate-toni-townes-...
• dancingczars.wordpress.com/.../surprise-michelle-obamas-princeton-bud...
• www.thecollegefix.com/post/15151/
• www.rightwingnews.com/...obama/michelle-obamas-classmate-a-senior-...

Stories like these sicken me when it comes to how they are effectively ignored and swept under the rug. This case was criminally prosecuted only because there was a lot of money involved and it was students and not the staff.

If people are going to spend ridiculously high costs for schooling, they need to know that it's not going to support criminals like those at Winston-Salem.

Sadly this is more common that let on. They did the right thing in this case, giving her the boot, but it's not the case across the board.

I'm not a Republican and I think this is wrong. Republicans and Democrats have the same major flaws rather they like to admit to it or not.

Limiting exposure to different types of thought is now mandatory in many colleges.

No, the term "Liberal Education" originally applied to the old definition of "Liberal" which encouraged independent thought, positive action, and a base of factual knowledge. The modern version follows the modern definition of liberal which is some blend of Marxist - punishing those who excel to benefit those who do not. The opposite of Darwinism, yet teaching Darwinism is very high on their agenda. I've yet to figure out why those who most adamantly demand the teaching of Darwinism are those most against it's implementation. The scientific method may be taught in the science classes, but outside of that enlightenment type classes have little to do with enlightenment and more often than not teach hate under the guise of the opposite.